The water was furious, it was like a live thing, splashing for all sides. He had never seen anything like that before, until in stormy days. But there was some beauty in that wild splash, and somehow, he knew he had already 'seen' that phenomenon sometime. The pool looked like greeting him, with it's own power...
 To his astonishment, he could feel the water touching his body, and looking to himself, he saw blue scales for all his elegant and menacing form, and he felt portly horns in his big head. He was into the pool.
 Then he saw the forest around him, and a young woman who somehow he knew from somewhere. Her long dark hair was free, looking like a cloak in her shoulders. Her wide dark eyes were shining mysteriously...There was something supernatural in that warm look, in that abysm that was the young's eyes...Her Chinese cloth was the most beautiful and rich he ever saw, adorning her goddess' body.
 The woman started to walk towards him, with slow and tightly steps...

 Shiryu opened his eyes suddenly, taking sometime to recognize his bedroom, in Rozan.
 He saw the stars shining from the window, friendly, and he could listen to the waterfall's pleasant noise...
 <the water splashed...>
 He was having the same dream every night from sometime now. The landscape looked like the one's from Rozan, but he had never seen that place in there.
 The Saint get up, and walked to the window, feeling the fresh breeze from the night caressing his face, and that sky's color remembered him the color of Shunrei's hair.
 She had noted he wasn't good. He knew that, but she hadn't asked him a word and he hadn't say anything to her, fearing he would concerned her with his own matters. She had suffered too much for him, with all his efforts in take her out of his problems. And now that everything was in a relative peace, for nothing in the world he would make her sweet and innocent smile disappear.
 Shiryu closed his eyes, imagining the smile so precious of the girl who was sleeping in the other bedroom. She was so calm and kind...too perfect to be real.
 Saori-san was a pretty girl too, anyway, very different from Shunrei. But he knew it was normal for his friend has that perfect beauty. She was Athena after all. But Shunrei...she was so beautiful or more than Saori...and she was an human...her dark blue eyes were like the deeps of the water from the pool, warm and truly...
 Then he remembered his woman's dream's strange eyes, and shivered, opening his own gray eyes.

 The day was quiet and normal, the air was neither so hot neither so cold.
 Shunrei was finishing to make the breakfast, when Shiryu appeared in the kitchen.
 She studied him calmly, seeing the dark lines in his eyes. He hadn't sleep again, it was clear to anyone.
 Trying to ignore this, she smiled. "Good Morning, Shiryu! Let's have breakfast!"
 Kiki came running and, happy as always, sat at the table to eat too.
 "Thank you, Shunrei." said Shiryu, smiling at her too, forgetting his tiredness. All that night he had thought in her, in her face, almost fearing to loose her someday, and now that he could see her there, in front of him like this, knowing that to touch her he only needed to rise his arm, was erasing all the bad feelings his heart had sent to his mind.
 Anyway, he should think at the forest...
 "Shunrei..." he whispered, fearing her reaction.
 To his astonishment, she smiled again, without needing to finish his request." You can go to the forest. For me it's okay. I just need to know if you're safe."
 Her psychic senses were wonderful!
 "Hmmm...why should he go to the forest, Shunrei?" asked Kiki, unfortunately not so sensitive as the girl.
 Shiryu and Shunrei laughed and she turned her face to her adopted brother." And please, Shiryu, try to put an end to these nightmares who are making you lost your night so much."
 Admired, he nodded then get up , ready to go. At the door, he turned to her. "In a few days I'll be back."
 "Hai." she said, getting the breakfast dishes from the table.
 Kiki looked from one to other, then cried." Why is he going away???"
 The girl put one thin hand at the boy's shoulder, while Shiryu went out. "Because he needs to be alone." she answered sweetly.
 "Ahh..."

 Shiryu walked with no direction in the forest, leaving his mind blank from every thought besides his strange dreams.
 At the Sunset, he found what he was looking for: the river and the waterfall he had seen in the dream.
 Suddenly, he felt a wave of energy coming behind him and turned, ready to defeat himself; and he saw one shadow coming close in tightly and soft steps.
 When the shape stopped in front of him, he recognized the woman from his dreams.
 "Who are you?" he asked, facing her.
 She smiled, coming closer, her eyes darker than ever.
 "My name's Mei-Li. I'm here to return you to your past, and take you back to our tribe, Great Sui-Long."
 Flashes came into his mind when she finished saying that last word. Flashes from another life, old, ancestral, flashes from his own life, like a dragon god...the elder dragon of water, Sui-Long, as he had being called. That woman was from his past too...Mei-Li, the elder dragon of Air.
 He remembered a choice too...a choice made more than ten years ago...he had decided to leave that power, wisdom and coldness behind him, and had decided to live like human, to learn what was human's love...when he remembered this option, he saw like a soft touch in his mind the smile and the shine of Shunrei's eyes. He chose to be human to live with her...